# H1262 בָּרָה

בָּרָה (bârâh), Strong’s H1262: to select; to feed; to render clear KJV: choose, (cause to) eat, manifest, (give) meat.. Occurs 6 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H1262 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*bârâh* — to select; to feed; to render clear

KJV: choose, (cause to) eat, manifest, (give) meat.

Derived from [בָּר bâr](https://besorah.bible/word/H1250) (grain of any kind)

Occurs 6 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בָּרָה vb. eat
- Qal eat bread
- Pi. for devouring
- Hiph. cause to eat bread

## Where it occurs
- [1 Samuel 17:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/17?v=8) — He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I…
- [2 Samuel 3:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/3?v=35) — All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and…
- [2 Samuel 13:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/13?v=5) — Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please…
- [2 Samuel 13:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/13?v=6) — So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister…
- [2 Samuel 13:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/13?v=10) — Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the room, that I may eat from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes which she had…
- [Lamentations 4:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/4?v=10) — The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter…